Frederik Collett

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Frederik Collett , painting by Frits Thaulow , 1875

Frederik Jonas Lucian Bothfield Collett (born March 25, 1839 in Christiania , Norway ; † April 19, 1914 in Gjørlia near Lillehammer , Norway) was a Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School and the Barbizon School .

Life

Collett, son of the Justice Secretary Johan Collett (1800–1877) and his wife Marie Frederikke Thomasson (1810–1839), who died three days after his birth, grew up in a family of politicians and officials. The Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Collett was his grandfather. Until 1858 he attended the cadet institute of the Kriegsmarine. During this time, in which he spent four to five years at sea, he met the technician and naval officer Carl Fredrik Diriks (1814–1895), whose passion, drawing and painting, he shared. This prompted him to develop the desire to become a landscape painter. With his father he went to Düsseldorf , where they visited the landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude , who taught there, accepted him as a private student in 1860 and taught until 1862. In 1861 Gude, his friend Peter Nicolai Arbo and Collett went on a study trip together. Together with Adolph Tidemand , he visited his master in 1862 on a study trip to Wales , on which, among other things, the nature studies for the composition of the 1863 picture From Wales were made. From 1862 to 1864 he went to Morten Müller's private studio in Düsseldorf . In addition, he enrolled for the school year 1861/1862 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the building class that was directed by Rudolf Wiegmann . He gained close social contact with Scandinavian and other artists in Düsseldorf through his membership in the Malkasten artists' association , to which he belonged from 1861 to 1865/1866.

In 1873 he traveled to Paris with the painter Frits Thaulow , whom he had met in Copenhagen . In two further periods, in the years 1874/1875 and 1878/1879, he lived there mainly in the environment of other Scandinavian artists such as Carl Fredrik Hill or Berndt Lindholm and took up the artistic techniques and landscape views of the Barbizon School. In 1877 Thaulow, Lindholm and Collett went on a study trip to Le Havre and Dordrecht . Under the influence of French landscape painting, especially the models Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , Charles-François Daubigny and Émile Breton (1831–1902), he changed his painting style in the direction of early Impressionism . In the 1880s he completely switched to open-air painting.

Winter, Mesna , 1892, Bergen Art Museum

Collett came to Lillehammer for the first time in 1883. He visited the city every winter from 1886 until his death. The naturalistic winter landscapes created there became his specialty. For painting in the landscape under frost conditions, he developed the type of an open-air studio on a sledge , which was built in the 1890s by the Skabo railway car factory. In the years 1896 to 1912 he also designed fabric samples .

Collett was regularly represented at the autumn exhibitions in Christiania. He also sent several international exhibitions (Copenhagen 1872, World Exhibition Vienna 1873 , World Exhibition Paris 1889 , World Exhibition Chicago 1893 , Berlin 1896, Stockholm Exhibition 1897 , Saint Petersburg 1897, World Exhibition Paris 1900 , Munich 1901, Düsseldorf 1904).

Collett had a small pension that made his bachelor life financially independent. This may also be one reason why he painted relatively few pictures in his career. His catalog raisonné counts only 230 pictures.

literature

Web links

Commons : Frederik Collett  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
  2. ↑ See Findbuch 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 428
personal data
SURNAME Collett, Frederik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collett, Frederik Jonas Lucian Bothfield (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School and the Barbizon School
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Christiania , Norway
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1914
Place of death Gjørlia near Lillehammer , Norway